Grocery Stores Are Masking Price Hikes Via “Shrinkflation”

Zub Brothers ^ | 7-8-2021

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I find that’s still true but you have to buy the extra large giga size can of tuna..

[TTFX]

Cocoa has many benefits. A pizza or potatoes made with canola oil is not a good option.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yes, a half-gallon of ice cream is now "1.5 quarts" or 75% of a half gallon. This is a price increase of 33%.

Now a pound of coffee is 12 ounces or 75% of a pound. This is a price increase of 33%.

[rellic]

My rib eye is about $1.50 per pound as are all meat cuts and hamburger. But I raise my own cattle.
Get out of the city.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Hard to ‘shrink’ a pound of carrots or a head of lettuce. The closer you eat to the ground, the better off you are.

Learn to cook and bake from scratch. It’s NOT hard, just a little more time consuming.

That said, I will buy and brew the CHEAPEST store brand coffee I can find, but I will pay whatever they ask of me for my favorite flavored coffee creamers. ;)

Yes, I know I can make my own, but they just don’t taste the same. I must be addicted to the secret blend of chemicals used, LOL!

(I am working on weaning myself off of them. When the bottle is 1/2 empty, I then fill it up with Half & Half. So far, my Inner Coffee Fiend seems to be fooled.)

[rellic]

Sometimes. I still can’t make eggs as cheap as store bought, all things considered. My chickens are a lot tougher than store bought. Open range is probably why.
What you get with “eating close to the ground” is reliability. I really don’t have to worry about empty shelves. That has a lot of value.

[DannyTN]

[Born to Conserve]

My grandparents had jobs similar to those of my generation. Yet, they had HUGE houses on HUGE lots, ten kids, two maids, a yard man, and every stick of furniture they had was so well built, it is still being used by their great, great grandchildren. And, when they died, they had savings enough to pay for the HUGE taxes.

Inflation my a$$. Our wealth and income have been stolen from us, and given to the stupid, lazy underclass.

[Pollard]

My rib eye is about $1.50 per pound as are all meat cuts and hamburger. But I raise my own cattle. Get out of the city.

I'm very rural and surrounded by beef cattle farms but our property isn't big enough so we got meat goats last year and will be putting some in the freezer next year. Got a Boer buck on top of two Kiko does. Could have put a buckling in the freezer this year but I was curious to see how fast he'd grow out. He's as big as his momma now and got a big ole set hanging. I might put him on top of the doe who's not his momma. Boers tend to be high maintenance so I want to see how high a percentage of Kiko I can go while still putting on quick weight. Kiko are the lowest maintenance meat goat breed. Also wanting to get a small breed of pig like Kunekune.

[Born to Conserve]

“Walking into the lowes foods this morning and it said Tribe Humus was on sale.”

Humus. A vegetarian delight enjoyed by people who can no longer afford meat. (or perhaps are just enamored by the moslum lifestyle)

[4yearlurker]

A pound of bacon is now 12 oz. Still have the 16 oz if you look,a half gallon of orange juice is now 58 oz. I also remember when the Burger King Whopper came out. You had to use two hands to eat it. Not any more. However these are the things the companies have to do to stay competitive.

[mykroar]

Most ice cream is now 1.5 quarts instead of a half gallon. Package looks the same. The couple that are still a 1/2 gallon aren’t hard to find - it’s all over their package. LOL

[I want the USA back]

This inflation is good for you. You vill like it!

I’ve seen this “shrinkflation” at the grocery store. This allows the corrupt biden administration to claim that prices are not rising.

[dware]

grocery stores don’t actually make and package the items you buy.

Many conglomerates have "store brands". Such is the case with Kroger.

[Keyhopper]

Them burgers get any smaller we’ll have to start snorting it like cocaine.

[Rusty0604]

INGREDIENTS: GENERAL MILLS COCOA PUFFS (Sugar, Whole Grains (Corn, Oats, and Rice) and Corn Flour, Modified Corn Starch, Cocoa, Canola and/or Rice Bran Oil, Corn Syrup, Cocoa Processed with Alkali, Salt, Calcium Carbonate, Caramel and Beet Juice Concentrate Color, Tricalcium Phosphate, Trisodium Phosphate, Zinc and Iron, Artificial Flavor, Vitamin C, Niacinamide, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B1, Folic Acid, Vitamin B12, Wheat Starch, Vitamin E and BHT to preserve freshness.)

[TomGuy]

consumers are “much more gullible than classic theory predicts. They are more sensitive to changes in price than to changes in quantity.”

It isn't so much that they are more gullible but their choices are limited/shrunk from most manufacturers/suppliers.

Most TP brands have already gone through shrinkage -- many times. Coffee brands -- similar. And this is repeated from brand to brand, product to product.

I did notice my last Folgers purchase (big 'can') was -- 3 lbs (48 oz). I haven't seen that size in a Folgers product in decades. Coffee suppliers began the product container shrinkage decades ago.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Our wealth and income have been stolen from us, and given to the stupid, lazy underclass."

Absolutely! *BUMP*

[TTFX]

Opinions vary on what is healthier. I think the amount of canola used and how much it was heated can make it more harmful.

[NWFree]

It was happening well before now on various products.